|  20 April 1994
 |   This sculpture represents the special baskets carried by street vendors in Thailand to
        sell food or small goods. Although modest and sometimes precarious, the job of a street
        vendor provides an honest way to earn one's living. The artist is again playing with
        words: 'ray khay', which means 'street vendor', sounds like the reverse of 'khay lay',
        which means 'salesman who is a trickster', particularly because in Thai pronunciation the
        sounds 'r' and 'l' sound almost identical. 'Khay lay' is used here to designate people who
        pretend that they want to offer a service while actually seeking money.  |